“There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world - its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”— Thomas Merton, amazon.com
“We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see its like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the pa…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“When you consider doing something that you truly love and are invested in, you are going to feel an influx of fear and pain, mostly because it will involve being vulnerable.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean. Neither more nor less.”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.com
“Finding meaning, like losing meaning, involves pleasure as well as pain. But then losing meaning, like finding it, does too, as the best nonsense reminds us.”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.com
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.com
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”— Parker J. Palmer, Parker J. Palmer, amazon.com
“It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy, or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Down’s-syndrome child. Because in every day of your life,…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually you'll be dead.”— Mr. Peanutbutter, netflix.com
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your…”— Marianne Williamson, amazon.com